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LOS ANGELES — Great L.A. theaters and intriguing gravesites. With the Academy Award nominations out, thoughts of movies turn once again to Hollywood. The Oscars will be held at the Kodak Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard on Feb. 26. But when I want to treat friends from out of town to a classic Los Angeles-area movie experience, I'm more likely to head to Westwood, on the west side of the metropolis. Westwood was a planned community near the University of California, Los Angeles, launched just as the stock market crashed in 1929, and movie theaters were part of the master plan. There are many theaters in the area, but the highlights are a pair of classics across the street from...

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